Daiichi Sankyo has been given a priority review from the FDA for pexidartinib, which is vying to become the first systemic drug therapy for rare cancer tenosynovial giant cell tumour (TGCT).
Japan’s Daiichi Sankyo has joined an open innovation research initiative that will try to develop a therapy for type 1 diabetes based on insulin-producing cells.
Merck & Co has dominated proceedings at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), with a steady flow of data from its Keytruda checkpoint inhibitor drug at the conference in Chi